'Deadpool & Wolverine' Surpasses 'Joker' as Highest-Grossing R-Rated Film in the World

New day, new record for Deadpool & Wolverine.

The film from Marvel Studios and the director Shawn Levy officially surpassed $1.079 billion in global box office earnings Joker (2019), for becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time with a total global box office take of $1,085.6 million.

• It is important to highlight that Joker was not released in the Chinese cinema market, the largest market in the world.

The international box office of Deadpool & Wolverine is $568.8 million, while the domestic box office is $516.8 million.

Other previously achieved records:

• Sixth-biggest domestic opening of all time for any film ($211 million)
• Best R-Rated Domestic Release of All Time.
• Best debut in the careers of Reynolds, Jackman, and Levy.
• Best fourth domestic release of a superhero film.
• Best international box office opening for a R-rated film.
• Best global opening ($444.1 million) since Spider-Man: No Way Home.
• Highest-grossing R-rated film in American box office history.
• Second Disney film to surpass $1 billion at the global box office in 2024, behind Inside Out 2. Both are the only films in the billion-dollar club so far this year.

Deadpool 3brings together on the big screen Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman as Deadpool and Wolverine for the first time since X-Men: Origins: Wolverine (2009). It also marks the official arrival of Deadpool and Wolverine to Marvel Studios' MCU.

Deadpool & Wolverine It is the first installment of the saga to be released by the Walt Disney Company, following Disney's massive acquisition of Fox in 2019. This did not alter the R rating franchise feature.

The first installment followed the antihero seeking revenge against Ajax (Ed Skrein), the man who turned him into a mutant and left him disfigured. The second film focused on Deadpool assembling the X-Force team to battle the time-traveling soldier Cable (Josh Brolin). Both films broke records upon their respective releases in 2016 and 2018, with openings of $132.4 million and $186 million, respectively — historic for an R-rated film.

In Deadpool & WolverineDeadpool enlists Wolverine's help to save his world. Reluctantly, the mutants must join forces.

“When Wade is yanked from his universe by the Time Variance Authority, the watchdogs of the multiverse introduced in Loki, he embarks on a mission through multiple alternate dimensions that brings him together with a version of Jackman’s Wolverine from a parallel reality.”

The sequel features the returns of Morena Baccarin (Deadpool, Deadpool 2), Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool, Deadpool 2), Rob Delaney (Deadpool 2), Leslie Uggams (Deadpool, Deadpool 2), Karan Soni (Deadpool, Deadpool 2), the return of Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a character she played in Daredevil (2003) and for the last time in the 2005 solo spinoff, Patrick Stewart (X-Men), the surprise cameo of Dafne Keenreprising her role as Laura/X-23 from Logan (2017), and many other cameos.

New additions include Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Emma Corrin (The Crown).

Levy, Reynolds and Lauren Shuler Donner serve as producers, with Louis D'Esposito, George Dewey, Wendy Jacobson, Simon Kinberg, Jonathon Komack Martin, Josh McLagen, Mary McLagen, Reese and Wernick serving as executive producers.